How to Change Your Mind
In a world where the personal has become political, and politics has swallowed everything, the stakes of changing your mind can feel really high. To change your mind is to risk betrayal – of your peop...
13 Okt 20221h 6min
The Iranian Regime's Most Wanted Woman
Last month, a 22 year old Kurdish Iranian woman, Mahsa Amini, was arrested in Tehran by the Islamic Republic's so-called morality police for not wearing her hijab correctly. Three days later, on Septe...
7 Okt 202259min
From Racial Reckoning to Race Abolition
Today’s episode is borrowed from the feed of the great podcast The Fifth Column. Usually hosted by Kmele Foster, Michael Moynihan, and Matt Welch, this episode, which aired in July of 2022, features K...
28 Sep 202253min
The Great Canadian Mass Graves Hoax
Last year, The New York Times dropped a bombshell headline: “‘Horrible History’: Mass Grave of Indigenous Children Reported in Canada.” As other outlets picked up the shocking story, marches, protests...
22 Sep 202255min
Eating Ourselves to Death
Fifteen years ago, there was a lot of talk about the obesity epidemic. In 2008, Michelle Obama started a government program called “Let’s Move!” that sought to reduce childhood obesity. You might reme...
15 Sep 20221h 33min
Has Freedom Failed Us? A Debate
If there is a headline to the past half-decade, it’s this: liberal democracy is under threat across the West and populist movements are on the march. There’s Brexit in the UK. There’s Viktor Orbán in ...
8 Sep 20221h 55min
Oberlin Accused the Gibsons of Racism. Now It Owes Them $36 Million.
On November 9, 2016, the day after Trump was elected president, three students from Oberlin College were caught shoplifting wine from Gibson’s Bakery, a local staple that had been around for 137 years...
1 Sep 202244min
Bill Barr Calls Bullsh*t
Attorney General William Barr is only the second person in American history to lead the Justice Department twice: first under President George HW Bush and then again, three decades later, under arguab...
25 Aug 20221h 32min
